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Genin of the Leaf
The young group of three entered the room were the first of the exams was to take place. Naruto had not told Hanabi or Jakon what to expect, he had wanted them to have this experience all to them selves. The room was already filled with genin when they entered, they were just another set of faces in the crowd. Naruto had told them not to draw to much attention to themselves, he remembered when there group had been noticed and by who.
They had not drawn nay attention to themselves, but someone did it for them. "HEY!" yelled a girls voice at Naruto, "Naruto Uzumaki."
Coming across the room was Temari's young student Mishimi. The young girl was pushing another shinobi out of the way and making her way over to Naruto, getting the attention of the whole room. When she finally got over to Naruto she said some of the worst things she could say in front of foreign shinobi.
"So after talking to Temari-sensei I think I believe what she said about you being friends with the Kazekage. But I still have no Idea how you could have saved his life. So if you really are that strong I can't wait to fight you. To think you're friends with the Kazekage, the KAZEKAGE! Well if Temari-sensei wasn't his sister I would hmmm, hmmm!"
Naruto had put his hand over the young girl's mouth. "Shut up!" he whispered intensely, but the damage had been done. Everyone was staring at the four of them, especially Naruto. If there had been a better way to get their attention Naruto couldn't think of it.
Hanabi was also shocked from hearing this. How? He is trained by legends, he makes friends with Kages, and he is still a genin. The very thought of such things seemed to scare her What will happen when he becomes a chuunin? She then asked Naruto quietly "How come you never told us this?"
Jakon heard and answered " I heard it yesterday." She gave him an incredulous look "You were training yesterday," he defended himself "that's when I found out."
Mishimi had managed to pull Naruto's hand away "HEY! How dare you do something like that. If you didn't know Temari-sensei." she said warningly.
The other two from her team walked up and stood on either side of her "Geez," said the boy on her right. He was a big guy with a curved sword on his waist. He had his head shaved and was bare chested. All over his body were tattoos, even on his head. "You know I thought we told you to stay with us and try not to say anything stupid."
The girl turned to face him and glared at him with her green eye's "Why do you have to be so mean Yargon. All I want to do is have a little fun and become a chuunin along the way."
Wow, you have your priorities straight." Said the other boy. He wasn't as big as Yargon but was not too small himself. He had a brown coat on that covered his entire body and a hood that left only his eye's showing. He carried a large scroll on his back. The only scroll that Naruto had seen that big was the Scroll of Forbidden Seals that he had once stolen.
Mishimi now turned to the other side "Not you too Garik. Great, you see what you did Naruto. You turned my entire team against me."
Garik looked at Naruto "Don't listen to her. We've been doing this since we have been on a team together."
"Yeah" said Yargon "She just has a really big mouth." Yargon then saw Hanabi and walked over and stood next to her, leaning against a desk and put on a smile "So you're the third member. I was sure that the other girl was to old, but your young enough."
Hanabi just looked forward "Not interested."
Yargon just put on a hesitant smile "What I haven't even said anything."
"I know what your going to say. The answer is no."
"But-" Yargon was cut off by Mishimi's laughter.
"Ha. You think your such hot shit. You can't get any girl, here or at home. If I have a problem with my mouth then you have a girl problem."
"Yeah, you." He said in response.
Naruto stopped paying attention to the bickering group, focusing his attention on the others in the room. He had a quick glance at Konohamaru. Then he noticed the white clad woman staring at him from the top of the room, by one of the desks. It was the girl from the day before. He began to walk towards her, the feeling of recognition still in his mind. Her sensei had not given her name, just called her the white clad princess.
Before he could get to her however the instructor and select chuunin entered the room. The instructor was the feisty Anko. She called out to everyone "Alright you maggots quit down and listen up. You will come up to one of the chuunin and take a number, then you will sit in the corresponding seat. After everyone is seated then we will pass out the test."
The three leaf genin went up to get their numbers. When Naruto made it up to were Anko and the chuunin he was getting his number from she said to him "Mr. Uzumaki, we had to make a couple of small changes to the test because of you. No more blank pages." Naruto's eyes opened as wide as they could go and he swallowed audibly.
There goes my idea of costing through this test. He thought to himself as he took his seat. Naruto was next to a hidden rain shinobi and a hidden grass nin. He really didn't take a look at either of them, concentrating on the exam. I can do this. I have been able to learn a lot in the past years. I can do it. he thought to himself.
Anko stood up in the front and wrote down the rules one by one
You start with ten points and the points will be deducted with each incorrect or blank question.
This is a team test and your scores will be pooled to give you your score out of thirty.
"Listen up maggots I'm not done yet!" She yelled.
If you are caught cheating there will be two points deducted from your score. Five times and your whole team is disqualified.
"If you are stupid enough to get caught cheating then you don't deserve the title
of shinobi and you will not advance. Now keep quiet till I'm done."
If anyone scores a zero then your whole team is disqualified
The tenth question will be handed out after forty five minutes. We will check all papers then to see if there are any zeros and then the tenth question will be handed out.
"You have forty five minutes to go. You will start…NOW!"
Naruto flipped over the paper he had been given. Ok. First question:
There are several ways to manipulate the chakra that a person uses. Name two ways and give two example of each, listing the creator of the jutsu named.
This isn't going to be so bad after all. He thought to himself.
Hanabi looked over the questions. How are any of the genin supposed to answer these questions. She contemplation everything about the test she had learned so far. Then she let out a little laugh We are supposed to cheat. We just aren't supposed to get caught. Hanabi quietly made the hand seals for the Byakugan and the veins next to her eyes began to pop out.
She looked over what the others in her team were doing. Jakon was reading the test and had his hand in his hair. Naruto was, surprisingly, writing down the answers to the questions. He was moving on the fourth question now. She knew that she could get the questions from Naruto, but Jakon had to get the answers as well. She sat copying Naruto's answers and thought of a way to give them to Jakon.
Jakon was having a small freak out. Just a small one mind you. He sat with his hand in his hair, holding the paper up. Great, just great. How am I going to get these questions right. Hanabi was sitting on a platform three below him and Naruto was off to the left at the bottom. He could almost see what Hanabi had written, but unless he bent over the desk he couldn't read it.
Naruto was on the last question when a gust of wind came from down the row, knocking everyone over. He got back up and looked at his paper. The answers were all gone, someone had taken his paper when he was on the ground! He wrote his name on the top of the new paper and started to write down the answers again, he still had half an hour.
Hanabi saw as the line of people on the bottom fell to the ground. The person two away from Naruto had managed to take his paper. Hanabi recognized the person as the loudmouth from before. She had fallen with the rest, but had held on to her paper when she fell and made the swap. She looked at Jakon with her Byakugan. Still an empty sheet. And I have nothing to give him the answers with. She hoped he figured out something.
His time was running short. Jakon had been there for forty minutes. He had no idea how he was going to get any of the answers. Please something help me out here. He thought to himself. He had no idea what he was going to do.
Jakon's prayers were solved when he looked at how fast the person next to him was writing. The woman was almost finished with the first part of the test. Best of all though, the girl didn't put a name on the test at all. The girl put her pencil down and flipped it over, Jakon imitated her.
When she leaned back and gave her arms a stretch he swapped papers, using the speed from his training. The girl looked back down and waited for the last question in another five minutes.
Hanabi had gotten the last question off of Naruto's sheet, after he had done the first eight again. She decided to take one more look to see how Jakon was doing. To her great surprise he had all of the answers and his paper was flipped. Now how did he do that? she thought. After seeing Naruto's test get stolen she had kept her hands on the test and left it face up. Maybe some of those fools will get disqualified for trying to cheat. Then she decided to see if she had any marks against her for cheating.
She focused the sight of the Byakugan to the proctor chuunin. They held a small seating chart, on a small computer. Anytime one of the students tried to cheat they put a mark down, sending this to the other students. Twenty groups had already been disqualified, but there were still more than enough people in the room.
She looked and saw that Naruto had no marks on his name, Jakon had two, and she had four! What! That's impossible. She quickly flipped over her paper and held it down tight. They must have seen me activate the Byakugan or were suspicious because my paper was still facing up. She was needless to say she was shocked.
Anko slapped her hand against the board an gave out a loud bang. "Forty five minutes are up!" she yelled "Put your papers down and flip them so they are face down. The chuunin will go around and disqualify any zeros."
The group of chuunin got up and checked all of the papers, marking off wrong ones right on the paper. Naruto had managed to get all of them right. Hanabi was relived, she would end with a point left over. When they got to Jakon's neighbor they disqualified her and moved on to Jakon. He had gotten all of them right, minus his four points from cheating.
Anko stood in the front of the room and gave Naruto a death stare. All of the testers had heard about his little spirit boosting speech, something Anko had not liked. "They are supposed to come to the choice on their own," she had said and it was her who had gotten some other changes to the test.
Naruto understood clearly what that look meant, he had also seen how crazy she had been in the second exam. Anko yelled out loudly again when all of the zero's were sent out "Alright, time for the tenth question. There are a few stipulations that go with it though. If you do not except the tenth question you will be disqualified. If you take the tenth question then you will have one chance at it. If you get it wrong though, you will be disqualified and you will not be aloud to take the chuunin exam again. Any of you wimps that don't want to risk it stand up and leave when you are written down with that of your teams."
Slowly but surly the participants stood up and were sent out of the room. Hanabi never considered standing and Jakon was watching the other two to see their moves. Finally they stopped leaving and there were only nine teams remaining. "Anko stood and looked at them all with wonder. "Well Mr. Uzumaki," she said with a loud voice "It seems you haven't left that much of a mark here did you." Some of the other teams looked at Naruto with wondering look on their faces.
Anko stood up tall and yell out "There are congratulations to be given. You all pass." The looks of wonder passed from one genin to another. "The test was to see if you had the skills to gather information without being caught. You have all passed though because you managed to also make a tough decision in, addition to the information gathering. In one past exam we had twenty six teams pass this exam thanks to Mr. Uzumaki." She said this with a little accent on the 'Mr.' "He was able to pass the exam that year with no answers on his sheet and then inspired all of the remaining to take the tenth question with his big mouth."
"Hey I don't have the biggest mouth this year!" he yelled out pointing at Mishimi who was two seats away from him.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"HEY!" yelled Anko, not liking losing their attention so easily. She went on and gave a speech very similar to the one Naruto had heard the first time he took the exam. When she finished Neji entered the room. Anko saw him and yelled out once more "Prepare for the second exam! Your proctor is here."
